Ghosts in the Stadium - Unknown Past of Iconic Carolina Football Stadiums

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WRAL Documentary's most recent project is Ghosts in the Stadium, a historical documentary that examines the unknown past of four iconic football stadiums in the Carolinas and their links to the painful history of race relations in the United States. WRAL Investigative Documentary Producer Cristin Severance and WRAL Sports Anchor Chris Lea set out to uncover who these stadiums were named after, where they were built and what communities they displaced.
“When Chris pitched doing a WRAL Doc and WRAL Sports collaboration, I had no idea the secrets we’d uncover at these sites,” said Severance. “It’s important to tell these stories because they’re true. While some of these events happened more than 100 years ago, the impacts are still seen today.”
Severance, Lea and WRAL Documentary Photojournalist Dwayne Myers traveled throughout North and South Carolina and explored the history behind Kenan Stadium at UNC Chapel Hill, Carter-Finely Stadium at NC State, Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte and Memorial Stadium at Clemson University.
Stadiums are built to bring people together. While these four sports complexes exist on sites of violence against Black people, burial sites of the formerly enslaved, and Black communities displaced in the name of progress, there is opportunity in the unity of sports to celebrate the citizens forgotten by the existence of these massive structures.
“Some think these painful histories only serve to further divide us. That’s wrong,” said WRAL Sports Anchor Chris Lea. “Knowing real, local American history that helped to shape our communities will help us understand and empathize with each other, while also starting a healing process for everyone to move forward with,” said Lea.
Investigative Producer: Cristin Severance
Documentary Investigative Reporter: Chris Lea
Documentary Videographer/Editor: Dwayne Myers
Visual Design Director: Shan Zhong
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3 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 23

@nealconner1939 11 месяцев назад

Wow! Kudos for shining a light on a past history that should be remembered. UNC and NC State need to acknowledge with no less than a plaque. UNC needs to re-name it's stadium.

@debratyson621 11 месяцев назад

That was an awesome documentary! So much more is needed to educate people. Thanks to all who were involved with this project.

@nicholasestes4299 11 месяцев назад

I love football and see all these stadiums during the fall but never knew about them. Very good documentary about it all.

@lovellb5839 8 дней назад

Thank you for shedding light on this untold history.

@sonshinestar5572 11 месяцев назад

Thank you to all those who contributed to this documentary. Very interesting and enlightening. Much appreciated!

@lisahudson1997 11 месяцев назад

Your documentary how I would love for you to tell the stories.. This generation of young adults are very visual learners. This is the information future generations might appreciate, Thank you for a job well done!

@nasyaisrael 11 месяцев назад

Excellent documentary.

@cowboy7271 11 месяцев назад

This was very interesting and very inspirational.very good heads up.

@syenejasmin8443 11 месяцев назад

North Carolina you got to do better

@noir751 11 месяцев назад

The holocaust story without a justice claim delivered in the form or reparations in which no one objects to the story, or reparations. Doesn't make sense to me that a story is being told today to the descendants of slavery without reference to reparations as though one descendant is deserving of their ancestors pain and struggle. A good story without bite. A useless story. Yes? I am a 17 yr old and here these grown folks want to tell me this story as if knowing the story will make my life better after all the setbacks, torture, terrorism, Jim-crow, red lining etc and "we ALL gonna be better because of this history." Someone please respond and make this make sense.

@sonshinestar5572 11 месяцев назад

The question you need to ask yourself, is why you see no value in learning history?

@nicholasestes4299 11 месяцев назад

As the saying goes, if you don't know history, you are doomed to repeat it.

@christopherlea5095 11 месяцев назад

Hi! I'm Chris Lea, the guy who hosted this doc. Thank you for the comment. When I pitched this, the idea was to just tell the stories that many people don't know and let the audience come to their own conclusions. That's typically the aim or 'real' journalism because it's absent of agenda. However, you're absolutely correct that something needs to be done, especially to folks who are descendants of former enslaved people and folks who have had their homes/properties taken/condemned to build stadiums, schools, lakes, highways, parks, etc. This doc only scratches the surface and there's no way we could fit everything in 30 minutes, which is another reason why it is absent of agenda. I disagree that this makes it not worth watching. You're 17, watched this and clearly there's some inspiration there and that makes me happy. We need to know our history and the fight for equity has many different roles and players. My role is journalism/storytelling. Maybe yours is organization and movement to get things done. I thank you for watching and I wish you nothing but the best.

@jeromebrooks8209 10 месяцев назад

Sounds like typical white guilt.

@davidiihouston6883 3 месяца назад

If you hope to continue the fight for reparations, you need to know these stories. All of them. There is no such thing as a "useless story" when it comes to history.

@mwoodhouse7568 8 дней назад

The hateful lies never stop. Today it’s, “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs!”

@godslisaru 10 месяцев назад

No one took away the poor people there. Many new homes have been built for poor people primarily Black through community funds. Did anyone ask ME if that stadium should be there? I'm a white native whose "Gold mining" family helped originate Charlotte. I grew up very close to Panthers Stadium. I wish they had NOT built it. It cost taxpayers millions and is an eyesore to me. But get to the truth: 70% of NFL players are BLACK (over 53 are on the Panthers list on the website). Their average salary is $ 2 million each. I'm confused about why Blacks today feel slighted over an awful, despicable lynching in 1913 that should have never occurred....when Black NFL players are now made so extremely wealthy WITH the help of ALL taxpayers here, myself included. WHY is the GOOD done to help Blacks always forgotten and only the BAD remembered?

@jeromebrooks8209 10 месяцев назад

The entire area in Uptown and where the stadium stands was a segregated area called Brooklyn which was filled with Black homes, schools, churches and businesses. The city came in and destroyed the area in the name of Urban Renewal to build what is now Uptown Charlotte. No one cares about your opinion when literally thousands of Black families were forced to move and figure it out. That Black man who was lynched where the stadium stands is not to be compared with the success of Black athletes, who aren't even allowed to become NFL owners and barely allowed to become head coaches. Do us all a favor and shut your ignorant mouth.

@davidiihouston6883 3 месяца назад

NFL players, many of whom do not make 2m a season, represent a very tiny fraction of the Black population, never mind the fact that almost no Panthers actually come from Charlotte. The recent success of dozens doesn't offset the subjugation and theft of thousands.